Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. — The Abishalom of this passage, called, in 2 Chronicles 11:20, Absalom, is in all probability the rebel son of David, whose mother (2 Samuel 3:3) was also named Maachah. In 2 Chronicles 11:21-22, it seems that of all the wives (“eighteen wives and threescore concubines”) whom Ŕehoboam, following the evil traditions of his father, took, she was the favourite, and that even in his lifetime Rehoboam exalted Abijam “to be ruler among his brethren.” In 2 Chronicles 13:2 she is called Michaiah, and said to be the daughter of “Uriel of Gibeah.” This shows that, as indeed chronological considerations would suggest, she must have been the granddaughter of Absalom. She is mentioned below (1 Kings 15:13) as prominent in the evil propensity to idolatry.
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1 Kings 15:2
2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah,a the daughter of Abishalom.